Corbin Burnes First Start and Christian Yelich hits a home run
PHOENIX -- It was 50 degrees when Corbin Burnes threw his first Spring Training pitch. That’s surprisingly chilly for March in Arizona, but perfect conditions for a pitcher likely to make a second consecutive Opening Day start at Wrigley Field.
In fact, Burnes would be perfectly happy with 50 degrees on March 30 in Chicago.
“This would be beautiful on Opening Day,” Burnes said. “If you could pencil that in, I would take it.”
The Brewers would take an extended version of Thursday’s type of performance from Burnes in a 7-4 loss to the Rangers, one four-pitch walk aside. He was scheduled to work two innings, but wound up heading back to the mound for the start of the third because he’d only thrown 19 pitches to that point. Burnes was charged with a pair of runs following a leadoff walk in the third, but all told, it was a productive debut for three reasons.
1. He got some extra work in
“We were trying to get ‘up’ twice and get that pitch count to 20-30,” Burnes said. “We didn’t get there after two, so the lucky winner -- me – got to go out there for the third. But it was good. It was good to get out there three times.”
Pitchers talk more these days about “ups” -- the number of times they get up from the bench to pitch an inning -- than they do about raw pitch count. Each of the Brewers starters is on a somewhat different program this spring, based on the club’s experiences with them and, in some cases, their own wishes. Burnes said he was unhappy with his live batting practice sessions and simulated games prior to his Cactus League outing against the Rangers, so he considered Thursday a step forward.
In a week of lousy injury news throughout the league, the Brewers caught a heavy blow Wednesday. Craig Counsell announced that Tyrone Taylor had to receive an injection in his injured elbow, and is likely to miss the first month of the season. How will the Brewers fill out their early-season roster without him?
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